The Development of emotions and their regulation in sociocultural contexts
Importance of the imagination for the development of the regulation of emotions in preschool children
Project coordinator: Dipl.-Psych. Helena Kromm
Project description
Because infants and toddlers cannot distract themselves from their emotions to regulate themselves, preschool-aged children must first learn to consciously experience emotions, to verbalize them and, thus, deliberately control them. An important means of learning the ability to self-distance is, in our view, through the experience of role-playing, in which children take on the roles of others and act from the perspective of these roles. In this project, the question therefore arises as to how play-based methods act as a precursor for more mature forms of cognitive (re-)interpretation, and how this facilitates children's emotional regulation. To address this question, preschool children are given various tasks where they must wait for a reward or deliberately control their emotions. They do this either as a simple instructional task or as part of a role-playing game.
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cross-cultural moral socialisation
Project coordinator: Sri Indah Pujiastuti, M. Pd., Melanie Schwarz, M. Sc.
Project description
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ESEL MäKi (Experiencing Emotions in Play - A fairy tale intervention Kindergarten)
Intervention study to promote socio-emotional competence
Project coordinator: M. Sc. Sophia Hermann
Project description
Within the scope of this project, our aim is to develop an intervention program for the promotion of childhood play and the reflexive regulation of emotions. The intervention is intended to demonstrate that by promoting of the ability to play, many patterns of behavior are social-emotional competences. In the preschool age, children learn to distance themselves from their dominant action impulse and do not continue to follow it unchecked, they begin to consciously perceive and regulate their emotions.
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